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| 1878 |
| | | Romania achieves a new status as an internationally recognized independent nation | |
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| 1878 |
| | | English-born US photographer Eadweard Muybridge publishes closely linked photographs revealing how a horse goes through its paces | |
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| 1878 |
| | | Stanley agrees to work for Leopold II in opening up the Congo river to commerce | |
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| 1878 |
| | | Czech composer Anton Dvorák writes his first set of Slavonic Dances, originally as piano duets | |
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| 1878 |
| | | The Ten Years' War ends in Cuba, with Spain promising extensive reforms including the abolition of slavery | |
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| 1878 |
| | | A war of liberation against Turkey wins full independence for Serbia | |
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| 1878 |
| | | Three British armies invade Afghanistan, beginning the second Anglo-Afghan War | |
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| 1878 |
| | | English physicist Joseph Swan demonstrates a practical electric light bulb, using an incandescent carbon filament in a vacuum | |
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| 1878 |
| | | 21-year-old Joseph Conrad, a Polish subject, goes to sea with the British merchant navy | |
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| 1879 |
| | | The British find a pretext to march into the territory ruled by Cetshwayo, thus launching the Zulu War | |
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